Benchekroun, Rachel;
Cameron, Claire;
(2023)
Shrinking social spaces: The role of nurseries as social infrastructure and brokers of support in times of crisis.
Children & Society
10.1111/chso.12775.
(In press).
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Abstract
COVID-19 produced temporary closures and changes to organisational practices in nurseries, which shrank social spaces and presented challenges in providing and accessing parental support. Limited attention has been paid in early childhood literature to the role of nurseries. We explored how one nursery mediated the impact of the pandemic on mothers. Our London case study showed that mothers valued it as social infrastructure and as a broker of support networks. Our findings contribute to conceptual understandings and have important implications for the recognition of the role of nurseries in providing supportive spaces in times of economic and public health crises.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Shrinking social spaces: The role of nurseries as social infrastructure and brokers of support in times of crisis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/chso.12775 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12775 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Children & Society published by National Children's Bureau and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | early childhood, mothers, social infrastructure, support |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174049 |
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